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Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01452-5 The positive scientific developments that you might have missed. Plus, these exotic particles could finally break the Standard Model.

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01422-x Research funding agencies are battling a wave of AI-assisted applications. Countermeasures should not entrench existing power structures.

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00508-w Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01333-x A sensational scientific soirée, and reflections on how F. C. L. Wratten advanced photography in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01441-8 Legal rights for insects: a global imperative for stingless-bee conservation

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01408-9 Some clinicians are pushing to broaden testosterone use, but there is debate about its benefits and risks.

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01443-6 Thymic health under the microscope

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01409-8 Unless governments treat fertilizer production as strategic infrastructure, the world will keep lurching from energy shock to harvest failure.

Nature, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01436-5 Craig Venter — who led a race to decode the human genome – has died, aged 79. Plus, how so many runners just broke the marathon world record.

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01442-7 Precision medicine without equity is just stratified inequality

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01440-9 AI agents in research: when productivity comes at the cost of apprenticeship

Nature, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01450-7 The group of rodent viruses can cause disease in humans, but cases are rare.

Nature, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01394-y Bombing of Iran's civilian infrastructure has damaged universities, destroyed thousands of books and manuscripts, amid a government-imposed Internet blackout, some of the country's researchers have told Nature.

Nature, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01410-1 By accelerating the identification of DNA sequences that control gene expression, assays are revealing the hidden grammar of the regulatory genome — and giving scientists the means to rewrite it

Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10601-9 Author Correction: Titration of RAS alters senescent state and influences tumour initiation

Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01439-2 Nature staff discuss some of the week's top science news.

Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01411-0 To avoid sabotaging science, the European Research Council needs more funding and structural change.

Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01435-6 The tough new policy was introduced to curb submissions, but drew criticism from researchers.

Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01290-5 Species recovery, cancer-preventing vaccines and progress in developing renewable-energy sources are just some of the positive developments that have happened this year so far.

Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01075-w Not a bug, but a feature.